Associations of father and adult male presence with first pregnancy and HIV infection: Longitudinal evidence from adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068)

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dc.article.start-page2177en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Lisa M
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Jess
dc.contributor.authorPence, Brian
dc.contributor.authorHills, Susan
dc.contributor.authorKahn, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorGómez‑Olivé, F. Xavier
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Ryan G
dc.contributor.authorTwine, Rhian
dc.contributor.authorPettifor, Audrey
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T16:11:41Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T16:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2021-01
dc.description.abstractThis study, a secondary analysis of the HPTN 068 randomized control trial, aimed to quantify the association of father and male presence with HIV incidence and first pregnancy among 2533 school-going adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in rural South Africa participating in the trial between March 2011 and April 2017. Participants’ ages ranged from 13–20 years at study enrollment and 17–25 at the post-intervention visit. HIV and pregnancy incidence rates were calculated for each level of the exposure variables using Poisson regression, adjusted for age using restricted quadratic spline variables, and, in the case of pregnancy, also adjusted for whether the household received a social grant. Our study found that AGYW whose fathers were deceased and adult males were absent from the household were most at risk for incidence of first pregnancy and HIV (pregnancy: aIRR = 1.30, Wald 95% CI 1.05, 1.61, Wald chi-square p = 0.016; HIV: aIRR = 1.27, Wald 95% CI 0.84, 1.91, Wald chi-square p = 0.263) as compared to AGYW whose biological fathers resided with them. For AGYW whose fathers were deceased, having other adult males present as household members seemed to attenuate the incidence (pregnancy: aIRR = 0.92, Wald 95% CI 0.74, 1.15, Wald chi-square p = 0.462; HIV: aIRR = 0.90, Wald 95% CI 0.58, 1.39, Wald chi-square p = 0.623) such that it was similar, and therefore not statistically significantly different, to AGYW whose fathers were present in the household.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianKG2022en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipOverall support for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Numbers UM1AI068619 (HPTN Leadership and Operations Center), UM1AI068617 (HPTN Statistical and Data Management Center), and UM1AI068613 (HPTN Laboratory Center). The study was also funded under Award Number 5R01MH087118-02 and R24 HD050924 to the Carolina Population Center. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases or the National Institutes of Health. The MRC/Wits-Agincourt Research Unit and Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System is supported by the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, and Medical Research Council, South Africa, and the UK Wellcome Trust (Grants 058893/Z/99/A; 069683/Z/02/Z; 085477/Z/08/Z; and 085477/B/08/Z).en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Health Sciencesen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1573-3254
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32820
dc.journal.issue7en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-020-03147-yen_ZA
dc.journal.titleAIDS and Behavioren_ZA
dc.journal.volume25en_ZA
dc.orcid.id10.1007/s10461-020-03147-yen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringeren_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Public Healthen_ZA
dc.subjectPregnancyen_ZA
dc.subjectHIVen_ZA
dc.subjectAdolescent girls and young womenen_ZA
dc.titleAssociations of father and adult male presence with first pregnancy and HIV infection: Longitudinal evidence from adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068)en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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